Fourth Pumping Station still vital to northern farmers

Facility helps keep 16,850 acres from being flooded.

By BOB HANSEN
for The Hawk Eye

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Rick Yotter points to a dark line tracing the walls of the Louisa/Des Moines County Drainage District No. 4 pump house and explains the mark is an ever-present reminder of disastrous Mississippi River flooding in 2008 that inundated the structure.

The line is 18 feet above the floor of the concrete-and-brick building and well above the height of the pumps that are the heart of the drainage district's operation.

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Rick Yotter, the manager at the Louisa Des Moines Drainage District No. 4 Pumping Plant, checks one of three pumps last week at the facility near Oakville.

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Jeff Campbell fuels a truck last week before heading to a project site at the pumping plant near Oakville.

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